Dead Man’s Bones, the funeral-attended-by-children outfit also known as “that band Ryan Gosling is in,” will release their self-titled debut album on Oct. 6. In an interview with Pitchfork, Gosling has previously described the group’s aesthetic as being from “that place before we were trying to make the fridge,” i.e. when they were younger, and putting crayons to paper in ways that seemed interesting to them, with the thought of actually impressing adults through renderings of horses and the like far from their minds. After the jump, the clip for “Name In Stone.” MORE »
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Dead Man’s Bones To Come To Order In October
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Leighton Meester Opens An Aerobics Studio
Having already conquered the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 with Cobra Starship’s “Good Girls Go Bad,” Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester is continuing full-speed-ahead with her music career. After the jump, the sorta-”Toxic” “Body Control,” which leaked over the weekend. MORE »
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Scarlett Johansson Still Trying That Whole “Being A Singer” Thing
Scarlett Johansson’s three-year-old collaboration with Pete Yorn, Break Up, is being released on Sept. 9. Judging by the song streaming from the album’s official site, ScarJo’s voice has been heavily manipulated into something that can actually convey emotion–I’m going to guess that is thanks to Yorn’s tinkering with levels. (Perhaps that explains the delay between recording and release in part?) Also, the song seems a little bit more She & Him than Gainsbourg et Bardot to these ears, mainly because it’s so damn peppy. [Official site / Billboard] MORE »
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Will Ferrell Says Goodnight To “Saturday Night Live,” Saigon
Perhaps perplexed by the prospect of five-and-change minutes to fill with zero chance for making Will Ferrell dress up like George Bush, or Alex Trebek, or , for a second time during its 90-minute running time, this weekend’s Saturday Night Live closed with a sketch in which Ferrell–accompanied by most of the show’s cast, as well as the members of Green Day, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hanks, Artie Lange, and other celebrities who just happened to be in the area–performed Billy Joel’s Vietnam-vet anthem “Goodnight Saigon” in full-orchestra drag. The punchline was that Ferrell’s mournful reverie was inspired not by time spent in the trenches during the Vietnam War, but by a vacation there some four years ago; the not-so-obvious punchline for me didn’t hit until yesterday morning, when the song proved incapable of being shaken from my brain. A slightly truncated version of the clip after the jump. MORE »
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Oh Hey That Was Fast
“Interscope Records has just signed 15 year-old singer-songwriter Taylor Momsen, who stars as ‘Little J’ on The CW’s popular television series Gossip Girl.” Gosh, just 36 hours after her band played its first show? I guess things really are different when you’re on TV, no matter how lousy your show’s ratings might be. [Universal Music Group] MORE »
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Taylor Momsen Filling “Gossip Girl”’s Romeo Void
I don’t watch Gossip Girl, and I am generally suspicious of the already-famous trying to leverage their celebrity in ways that result in them landing in the music business. That said, Pretty Reckless–the band fronted by 16-year-old GG starlet Taylor Momsen, which played its first show at the New York City club the Annex last night–is pretty decent; Momsen, looking like a refugee from the second stage at Lollapalooza ‘92, has a trembling wail that brings to mind Donita Sparks (although the keyboards on “Zombie,” above, are a little too close to those on “Separate Ways” for my comfort). After the jump, the decidedly spunkier “I Really Fuckin’ Love You,” a distant cousin of “Never Say Never” that could very easily slide into the soundtrack for the forthcoming Gossip Girl spinoff set in ’80s Los Angeles. MORE »
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Evan Dando Is Living The Surreal Life (Or At Least Its ’90s Equivalent)
If reality TV had been as soul-crushing in the 1990s as it is in the era when The Real World’s overarching message was more “too drunk to fuck” than “it wasn’t not funny” (OK maybe that’s a bad example there), a cast of that decade’s Surreal Life equivalent would have looked like this press release for the Lemonheads’ new all-covers album Varshons. Aside from Evan Dando, there is a serious cavalcade of stars aspect to the whole enterprise, which I suppose is part of the point. But–Gibby Haynes! Kate Moss! G.G. Allin–wait, isn’t he dead? MORE »
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Christian Bale: Savior Of Techno?
Christian Bale’s total freak-out on the set of Terminator Salvation has inspired two composers to go all Microsoft Songsmith on his rantings and set them to music. Above is the straight-outta-the-club “Bale Out,” by the YouTube remixer who goes by the name RevoLucian; it’s a little repetitive, but hey, so was “James Brown Is Dead.” An alternate take on Bale’s breakdown, by the Los Angeles spaz-pop outfit the Mae Shi and entitled “R U Professional,” is after the jump.
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Scarlett Johansson Digs Up Jeff Buckley’s Corpse, Kicks It… Sexily
Sexy siren and star of Rob Reiner’s 1994 classic North Scarlett Johansson has covered a Jeff Buckley song. And it sucks. And you can hear it inside! And if that’s not what gets people to click inside blog threads then we’ve been going at this Internet thing all wrong! What if we told you we had nude photos of her too? MORE »
